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Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017

You're reading from   Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 Learn C# Programming by building fun and interactive games with Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478922
Length 290 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Micael DaGraça Micael DaGraça
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts 3. Getting into the Details of Variables 4. Getting into the Details of Methods 5. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries 6. Loops 7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods 8. Let's Make a Game! – from Idea to Development 9. Starting Your First Game 10. Writing GameManager 11. The Game Level 12. The User Interface 13. Collectables 14. Enemies 15. Audio, 3D Games, and Export

Writing C# statements properly


When you do normal writing, it's in the form of a sentence, with a period used to end the sentence. When you write a line of code, it's called a statement, with a semicolon used to end the statement. This is necessary because the console reads the code one line at a time and it's necessary to use a semicolon to tell the console that the line of code is over and that the console can jump to the next line. (This is happening so fast that it looks like the computer is reading all of them at the same time, but it isn't.) When we start learning how to code, forgetting about this detail is very common, so don't forget to check for this error if the code isn't working:

Note

The reason a statement ends with a semicolon is so that Unity knows when the statement ends. A period can't be used because it is used in the dot syntax.

The code for a C# statement does not have to be on a single line as shown in the following example:

public int number1 = 2; 

The statement can be...

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